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The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West's own traditions. This is the first collection of its kind. The contributions re-examine colonial experience in India and the Americas, offering discussion of broad methodological issues, critical re-readings of influential Western interpreters of religion, and arguments that explore blindspots and insights typical of colonial difference when viewed through "non-Western" eyes. The volume is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars in philosophy, religion, and related fields. Readers will benefit from its broad coverage of regions, traditions and problems, and the balance of philosophical critique and reconstruction.Read more...

Cover --
Contents --
Introduction: The State of Philosophy of Religion and Postcoloniality --
Part I: Surveying the Scene --
What Is the 8220;Subaltern8221; of the Philosophy of Religion? --
Philosophy of Religion as Border Control: Globalization and the Decolonization of the 8220;Love of Wisdom8221; (philosophia) --
The Third Eye and Two Ways of (Un)knowing: Gnosis, Alternative Modernities, and Postcolonial Futures --
Part II: 8220;India8221; --
Mispredicated Identity and Postcolonial Discourse --
On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta --
Western Idealism Through Indian Eyes: A Cittamatra Reading of Berkeley, Kant and Schopenhauer --
An Approximate Difference: Proximity and Oppression in the West8217;s Encounter with Sikhism --
Max M252;ller and Textual Management: A Postcolonial Perspective --
Auto-immunity in the Study of Religion(s): Ontotheology, Historicism and the Theorization of Indic Phenomena --
Part III: 8220;America8221; --
The Meaning and Function of Religion in an Imperial World --
Cultural Participation and Postcoloniality: A U.S. Case Study --
Imperial Somatics and Genealogies of Religion: How We Never Became Secular --
De-colonial Jewish Thought and the Americas --
Enduring Enchantment: Secularism and the Epistemic Privileges of Modernity --
Part IV: Uneasy Intersections --
8220;Uneasy Intersections8221;: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and the Study of Religions --
Postcolonial Discontent with Postmodern Philosophy of Religion --
Afterword: Religion and Philosophy between the Modern and Postmodern --
Index.

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These essays analyze contemporary problems in the Philosophy of Religion in a historical context. They take the opportunity to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions from beyond the West, but of the West's own traditions.Read more...